Humanity's Last Chance

A distant future that is not a brotherhood of reasonable beings, but a brutal world of competition—where, in the struggle for dominion over the galaxy, nothing is off-limits. Where raw power rules the world. Where the wholesale extermination of entire races is the norm. Where weapons include annihilation rockets and the all-powerful artifact of the Forerunners. Where battles between fleets of war-stars redraw the map of the galaxy with bloody seams. Sometimes even death turns out not to be final—a brief pause between wars. By the will of immensely ancient and powerful beings, Alexander Sergeev did not die back in distant 1989; his soul was transferred to the twenty-fourth century to accomplish the impossible: to save from destruction a humanity doomed to be wiped out—betrayed by allies and forced to face a mighty enemy.